The "as-a-Service"-paradigm and its implications for the software industry - Insights from a comparative case study in CRM software ecosystems

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 51 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 125-137

  Hilkert, Daniel ^a   Wolf, Christian M ^a   Benlian, Alexander ^a   Hess, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

"As a service" vs. "on premise"; Analysis of value chains and value creation structures; Case study research; Cloud computing; Intermediaries; Software ecosystems; Transaction costs

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMMERCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AS-A-SERVICE VS. ON-PREMISE; INTERMEDIARIES; SOFTWARE-ECOSYSTEMS; TRANSACTION COST; VALUE CREATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84875265743     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13633-7_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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